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In fact, not content with one expedition, Shepard and Mitchell were tasked with getting out onto the lunar surface a second time. During this second foray, the pair had to do some climbing up a crater. This must have been quite an exhausting task, as it saw them ascending for well over a mile-and-a-half. They were out there for more than four hours. Photo Credit: NASA

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